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"Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred."
Donald L. Hicks
"Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred."
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"What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes."
Saffron Burrows
"What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes."
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"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore."
Olivia Newton-John
"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore."
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"With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me."
Doris Roberts
"With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me."
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"The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency."
Joyce Carol Oates
"The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency."
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"I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear."
Kathy Mattea
"I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear."
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"Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life."
Molly Parker
"Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life."
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"My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier."
Orlando Bloom
"My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier."
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"I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing."
Tony Bennett
"I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing."
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"Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments."
Ludwig Quidde
"Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments."
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"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids."
Mary Cheney
"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids."
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"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me."
Billie Jean King
"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me."
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"I was happier before, when I lead a normal life."
Enrique Iglesias
"I was happier before, when I lead a normal life."
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"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."
Hugh Prather
"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."
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"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."
Pierre Corneille
"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."
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"My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life."
Elvis Stojko
"My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life."
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"We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. But all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes."
Joseph Campbell
"We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. But all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes."
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"Oh, everything is fun when I'm around. Hercules's knees knocked into the back of my seat as he leaned back. "This one time, when I was ordered by the gods to . . .I could only think of three words.Fuck. My. Life."You should drive, because I'm going to end it all. Once we're on the freeway, I'm going to jump out of this vehicle and throw myself in front of a Mack truck.Josie's laugh cut off her yawn. "That's a little excessive.Adjusting the sunglasses I'd stolen from Aiden yesterday morning, I smirked. "I do not think anything is excessive when it comes to him."But that won't even kill you.I sighed. "Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it'll knock me unconscious for the time being."
Jennifer L. Armentrout
"Oh, everything is fun when I'm around. Hercules's knees knocked into the back of my seat as he leaned back. "This one time, when I was ordered by the gods to . . .I could only think of three words.Fuck. My. Life."You should drive, because I'm going to end it all. Once we're on the freeway, I'm going to jump out of this vehicle and throw myself in front of a Mack truck.Josie's laugh cut off her yawn. "That's a little excessive.Adjusting the sunglasses I'd stolen from Aiden yesterday morning, I smirked. "I do not think anything is excessive when it comes to him."But that won't even kill you.I sighed. "Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it'll knock me unconscious for the time being."
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"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
Christian Bale
"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
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"So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself."
Katie Couric
"So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself."
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"You still belong on the other side of the looking glass. Someday, when you're ready to take the step over to our side, I'll come see you again. Live well, Daniel. Make that final step count."
Marie Lu
"You still belong on the other side of the looking glass. Someday, when you're ready to take the step over to our side, I'll come see you again. Live well, Daniel. Make that final step count."
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"If you are generous in your relationships you will receive as much as you give."
Domonique Bertolucci
"If you are generous in your relationships you will receive as much as you give."
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"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
Louis Aragon
"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
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"No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that."
Dick Van Dyke
"No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that."
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"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror."
Logan P. Smith
"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror."
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"Never over book yourself fearing to miss out on opportunities.Be honest with yourself and how you use your time."
Kishore Bansal
"Never over book yourself fearing to miss out on opportunities.Be honest with yourself and how you use your time."
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"Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong."
Trevor Horn
"Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong."
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"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle."
Harvey Keitel
"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle."
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"No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life."
Ernest Renan
"No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life."
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"The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live."
Sean O'Casey
"The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live."
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"There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it."
Tom Stoppard
"There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it."
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"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."
Bruce Babbitt
"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."
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"There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God."
George A. Smith
"There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God."
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"A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values."
Chris Matakas
"A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values."
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"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."
George Santayana
"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."
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"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
Augustus Hare
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
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"I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life."
Ali MacGraw
"I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life."
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"I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to 'succeed' at your chosen 'direction' was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too."
Deb Caletti
"I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to 'succeed' at your chosen 'direction' was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too."
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"My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose..."
Gayle Forman
"My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose..."
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"It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well."
Rich Lowry
"It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well."
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"Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?"
Robin Hobb
"Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?"
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"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."
Roy T. Bennett
"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."
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"Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life."
Will Friedle
"Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life."
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"John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!"
Alan Vega
"John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!"
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"Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere."
V. S. Pritchett
"Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere."
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"At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about."
Janis Ian
"At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about."
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"Life should not be reduced to a to do list."
Rasheed Ogunlaru
"Life should not be reduced to a to do list."
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"My life is basically my work."
Temple Grandin
"My life is basically my work."
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"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."
Catherine Deneuve
"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."
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"One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it."
Jack Dee
"One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it."
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